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About 40 Deg. On mine.

HB

The forces in play when you grip the club , sole it and align the face are not present when you lay the club on a table and let gravity have its way......or when the shaft is a string for that matter. Have you factored that into your theory about me taking out my left foot?

Gripping the club and aligning the face at address are the first manipulations in the hierarchy of manipulations.

Homer had a screw head inbedded in the balsa wood iron head's sweetspot , a cog back of the leading edge. It had hook face therefor Id imagine. Meaning to hit a ball straight away with that club, theoretically , he'd have to play the ball back of low point.

If his experiment displayed horizontal for a cone shape shaft travel .... what force made it so?

Again Im not a theorist just a golfer who has on occasion fallen into a groove and swung horizontals all day long. It sure felt like a product of something. Not a manipulation .